World Cultures (Ea11025g)

Photograph of Temple - Casa de Monjas, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. North west.

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Photograph of Temple - Casa de Monjas, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Detached building from the west.

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Photograph of Temple - Casa de Monjas, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Range of chambers from south east corner of terrace and door in east end of wing.

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Photograph of Temple - Casa de Monjas, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Detached building from north west.

World Cultures (Ea11099r)

Photograph of Chapultepec, Mexico.

World Cultures (Ea8191.4)

Small photographic print of lefthand door jambs from outer to inner chamber of the Upper Temple of the Jaguars. Black and white. Shows Jambs K1, 2 and 3 in close up. Same neg as .3

World Cultures (Ea8191.5)

Small photographic print of lefthand door jambs from outer to inner chamber of the Upper Temple of the Jaguars. Black and white. Focus on Jamb K2 in close up Background picked out in red watercolour / ink View into the inner chamber, with ?wooden box on floor

World Cultures (Ea7218)

Bracelet/ armlet made from 'Job's tears' seeds. Five rows of seeds threaded and mounted on a cord base.

World Cultures (E1644.a)

Finely carved totem pole of black argillite. Consists of a series of faces, two with fishes in their mouths and surmounted by the figure of an eagle.

World Cultures (E4726)

Skull drum - two sides of cranium inverted and held together at the crown. HTA

World Cultures (Ea7936)

Witch doctors 'gun' or 'kaliloze'. Made from metal piping and wood from a funeral bier. Only one red (poisonous) 'Abrus precatorius' bean remains as decoration.

World Cultures (E2412)

Reliquary figure. Wooden grave marker covered with sheet brass and bronze pieces (and copper?). Concave face of female.

World Cultures (2244.TET)

Mexican Day of the Dead skeleton figurine (female).

World Cultures (Ea8201h)

Photograph of the top of a column from Chamber E, Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.

World Cultures (Ea10312)

Two carved red stone pipe heads with inlaid metal bands in various patterns.

World Cultures (Ea10320)

Flint arrowhead, triangular with slightly serrated edges. Light brown in colour.

World Cultures (Ea10321)

Stone axehead with long rounded butt with flattened end.

World Cultures (Ea10322)

Long, narrow flint arrowhead, broken at the end, but tip present. Arrowhead is neither tanged nor barbed.

World Cultures (Ea11058)

Hanging ornament made by Micmac women, of birchbark, decorated with coloured moose hair sewn into the bark. Ornament is in the form of a pouch. Front flap depicts a First Nations individual smoking a pipe. The back panel depicts a large bird in purple and white, surrounded by green foliage. Edges bound and oversewn.

World Cultures (Ea11059)

Hanging ornament made by Micmac women, of birchbark, decorated with coloured moose hair, which is sewn into the bark. Ornament is in the form of a pouch. The front flap/panel depicts a First Nations individual smoking a pipe, holding two vessels, and standing in front of a fire with a large pot over it. Sewn on back panel are two birds and foliage. Edges bound and oversewn.

World Cultures (Ea11060)

Hanging ornament made by Micmac women, of birchbark, decorated with coloured moose hair, which is sewn into the bark. Ornament in form of a pouch with a round hole in front panel showing red inside lining. Decorated with flower and leaf designs. Back panel has a raised flower, made from short bunches of hair. Edges bound and oversewn.

World Cultures (Ea11061)

Hanging ornament made by Micmac women, of birchbark decorated with coloured moose hair, which is sewn into the bark. Ornament is in the form of a pouch with round hole in front panel showing red inside lining. Decorated with flower and leaf designs. Back panel has raised flower, made from short bunches of moose hair, which is slightly damaged. Almost identical to Ea 11060.

World Cultures (Ea12115)

Stone arrowhead, waisted with tang wider than head. From a field near Bryantown Charles County Maryland U.S.A. Turned up by a plough.

World Cultures (Ea10089)

Six graduated pipes with shaped mouthpieces, tied together with a piece of reed and criss-crossing string

World Cultures (Eb494.6)

Lantern slide of of two funerary figures Ea8100 and E5103 from Mound of Guadalupe, Etzatlan, and small ?Colima pot E5065. Photographed in AB's house in Bath in front of the bookcase. From box of 53 lantern slides, of AB's tracings at sites, views of sites, voladores ritual and dance.

World Cultures (Ea8201f)

Black ink drawing of south column from Chamber E, Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.

World Cultures (Eb494.5)

Lantern slide of tracing, outline only, of priest from Teotihuacan. With label in AB's hand: The fresco house near station. Teotihuacan. 10. From box of 53 lantern slides, of AB's tracings at sites, views of sites, voladores ritual and dance.

World Cultures (Ea11099w)

Photograph of Xkichmol, Mexico.

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Photograph of Xkichmol, Mexico.

World Cultures (Ea8192b)

Photograph of the eastern column from the North Building C, Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza.

World Cultures (Ea6055)

2 quartzite/chert cores.

World Cultures (Ea8197k)

Photograph of a painted wall and column relief on the Eastern Side Wall and East Pier, North Building C, Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza.

World Cultures (Ea6054)

10 quartzite/chert cores.

World Cultures (Ea8205d)

Photograph of a wall relief from Lower Temple of the Jaguars (Chamber E), West Wall, Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. This appears to be the plaster cast set up in the Philadelphia Museum: AB helped to prepare it (from Maudslay's moulds?) and painted it, labouring over getting the colours right in the artificial light ogf the gallery. It took several months in 1909 / 10. The cast is no longer at Philadelphia, presumably disposed off at some point.

World Cultures (Ea8205c)

Photograph of a wall relief from Lower Temple of the Jaguars (Chamber E), West Wall, Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. This appears to be the plaster cast set up in the Philadelphia Museum: AB helped to prepare it (from Maudslay's moulds?) and painted it, labouring over getting the colours right in the artificial light ogf the gallery. It took several months in 1909 / 10. The cast is no longer at Philadelphia, presumably disposed off at some point.

World Cultures (Ea10990c)

Photograph showing part of vault from Lower Temple of the Jaguars (Chamber E), Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. This appears to be the plaster cast set up in the Philadelphia Museum: AB helped to prepare it (from Maudslay's moulds?) and painted it, labouring over getting the colours right in the artificial light ogf the gallery. It took several months in 1909 / 10. The cast is no longer at Philadelphia, presumably disposed off at some point.

World Cultures (Ea10990d)

Photograph showing part of vault from Lower Temple of the Jaguars (Chamber E), Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. This appears to be the plaster cast set up in the Philadelphia Museum: AB helped to prepare it (from Maudslay's moulds?) and painted it, labouring over getting the colours right in the artificial light ogf the gallery. It took several months in 1909 / 10. The cast is no longer at Philadelphia, presumably disposed off at some point.

World Cultures (Ea8204c)

Photograph of a wall relief from Lower Temple of the Jaguars (Chamber E), West Wall (Centre south), Great Ball Court, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. The photo has been retouched. This appears to be the plaster cast set up in the Philadelphia Museum: AB helped to prepare it (from Maudslay's moulds?) and painted it, labouring over getting the colours right in the artificial light ogf the gallery. It took several months in 1909 / 10. The cast is no longer at Philadelphia, presumably disposed off at some point. Trace of a warrior wearing feather headdress with his feet and the feet of others surrounded by scroll work can be seen. Below these is a line of decorated scroll work and underneath are three warriors wearing feather headdresses, tunics, feather tails. The warrior on the left hand carries a spear in his right hand and a mantle in his left hand. Between each warrior are elaborate patterns. A plain undecorated band divides these warriors from the dado. The dado shows plants and stems with fragments of two small figures holding on to the stems.

World Cultures (Ea11162a)

Photograph of the front page of a manuscript.

World Cultures (Ea11162b)

Photograph of an Iguana used as food.